Nutrition

On Special Rationed Milk and other Food Products Cubans Eat March 29, 2016 Regina Cano HAVANA TIMES — Some of us who live in Cuba have the strong feeling that our current eating habits aren’t exactly healthy. Some know this, others simply don’t even worry about it. The situation could become much worse when many […] Continue reading →

How Expensive is having a Child in Cuba? May 17, 2013 By Fabián Flores (Café Fuerte) HAVANA TIMES — For the second consecutive year, the London-based organization Save the Children has identified Cuba as the best country in Latin America to be a mother. Reading this, I cannot but think that the author of the […] Continue reading →

Cuba's sour economy a threat to rationsPaul Haven ASSOCIATED PRESSHAVANA Cuba may soon be saying adios to ration books. The system that allows islanders to buy food at deeply subsidized prices each month has long been one of the central building blocks of the country's socialist system, providing everyone from surgeons to street-sweepers the same […] Continue reading →

Could Cuba be ready to get rid of ration book?By PAUL HAVEN (AP) – 11 hours ago HAVANA — Cuba may soon be saying adios to ration books. The system that allows islanders to buy food at deeply subsidized priceseach month has long been one of the central building blocks of thecountry's socialist system, providing […] Continue reading →

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IACHR 2007CHAPTER IVCUBA I. COMPETENCE FOR OBSERVING AND EVALUATING THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CUBA 84. The authority of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to observe the human rights situation in Cuba derives from the provisions of the OAS Charter, from the Commission's own Statute, and from its Rules of […] Continue reading →

VENEZUELAFood shortage sparks Cuba-style rationingAmid a continuing food shortage, the Venezuelan government has announceda rationing system similar to Cuba's.Posted on Sun, Feb. 24, 2008BY CASTO OCANDOEl Nuevo Herald Venezuela has adopted an unprecedented system of food rationing similarto the ration cards used in Cuba, after several months of food shortagesthat have caused popular discontent. The […] Continue reading →

HAVANA — The ration book that determines most Cuban diets and that will briefly rule mine fits in my palm. Thick brown pages list amounts of foodstuffs to be checked, signed and stamped at “la bodega,” the… Continue reading →

FOOD-CUBA:Anxious About What to EatPatricia Grogg HAVANA, (IPS) – One of the main worries of the average Cuban family is food, which costs about two-thirds of their income, according to several studies. "From the time I get up and go out to work every morning, I think about what I'm going to cook for supper […] Continue reading →

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